• jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    6 days ago

    I knew someone that worked at an Audi dealer that can recognize everyone’s voice and associate their purchase.

    I called him 4 years later to inquire about a new Audi and he asked me how my TT was treating me and if I was ready for a bigger car(I mentioned that I was going to start a family soon).

    • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      6 days ago

      Born politician right there. Seriously, some of the shittiest villains in politics would nonetheless wow you with how they can legitimately work an entire room full of people, remember names, make you feel special, etc.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
    9·
    6 days ago

    I actually enjoy* fucking around with older-ish computers and making them kinda useful again

    * involves lots of cursing and groaning when things don’t work and I have to troubleshoot or start over

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      2·
      6 days ago

      Its a good hobby. I have a 14 year old Iomega network drive that I loaded Debian onto. It will serve audio or samba shares without overloading the 256MB of memory

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      My SO can identify all actors by voice (she follows all films by ear because she’s playing some kind of Candy Crush game — several of them, because she runs out of levels). And as a lot of them are foreign, and dubbed, she’ll tell me that this was the guy that was doing the voice in (litany of roles).

      Of course I have to pick films accordingly. She’s never seen Tenet.

    • untorquer@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 days ago

      If it’s an elf woman that may or may not be particularly is either extremely horny or ace, i have a pretty solid guess of the English voice actor…

    • beveradb@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      7 days ago

      Oh man so much love went into crafting code for low end MP3 players in the Rockbox project, then everyone ended up carrying around smartphones with tons of compute and memory resource to waste

      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        7 days ago

        I used rockbox on a recent holiday for my ipod 6g. It’s always my go to for holidays so i don’t need to use up my phone’s battery

      • Tier 1 Build-A-Bear 🧸@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Man I still use my iPod with rockbox. A terabyte of storage and a massive battery and I never have to worry about giving streaming revenue to pedo rapists like red hot chili peppers, or worry about rumors being true about pedo rapists like panic at the disco

      • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Rockbox was so cool. I had it on my SanDisk Sansa e250. It was so awesome. Better video format support, better interface. And it ran fucking DOOM.

      • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        6 days ago

        most code from the before times, from the long-long-ago, actually didn’t need a browser, and could fit on a floppy disk!

  • phantomwise@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    My S-tier abitity to hyperfocus on learning useless things to the detriment of everything else.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Well, if there’s a choice between learning something relatively tedious and completely useless, and something relatively tedious that’s urgently needed… I know what I’m going to pick!

      Oooh, an installation manual for a 1935 refrigerator!

  • DanForever@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 days ago

    Honestly, I think this skill could easily translate to one of those “lore keeper” or “continuity expert” jobs people have on TV shows.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Script supervisor?

      They must have been one of the main markets for Polaroid. They must have been dejected when production stopped.

  • Nangijala@feddit.dk
    5·
    7 days ago

    I know the year most Disney movies came out. Not all of them, but probably more than I should know. Generally, I know the year of release for most movies I have seen.

    When it comes to remembering useful things, I might as well have dementia.

  • buttnugget@lemmy.world
    61·
    7 days ago

    I think it kind of validates a type of thinking that any decent person would want in a candidate. Capitalists are stupid. They don’t know the first thing about skills and abilities.

    They’re the kind of bottom of the barrel dipshits who would dismiss a candidate who is great at spelling just because we have autocorrect, even though that’s a solid brain right there.